Principal Investigator(s):Reif, Karlheinz,, Commission of the European Communities; Cunningham, George, Commission of the European Communities; Kuzma, Malgorzata, Commission of the European Communities

Summary:

The sixth round of Central and Eastern Eurobarometer
surveys was carried out in Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria,
Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Macedonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the
Ukraine. Respondents were asked questions that appeared in earlier
surveys in this series. These included items on whether respondents
felt that things in their country were going in the right or wrong
direction, how the financial s... (more info)

The sixth round of Central and Eastern Eurobarometer
surveys was carried out in Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria,
Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Macedonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the
Ukraine. Respondents were asked questions that appeared in earlier
surveys in this series. These included items on whether respondents
felt that things in their country were going in the right or wrong
direction, how the financial situation of their household had changed
in the last year and how it might change in the next year, how they
felt about the creation of a free market economy, and how economic
reforms were going in their country. Respondents were also asked how
satisfied they were with the way democracy was developing, how much
respect there now was for human rights, their impressions of the aims
and activities of the European Community after its name was changed to
the European Union, which countries they believed their future was
most closely tied to, whether their country or the European Union
benefited most from the current relationship, their main sources of
information about the activities of the Union, and which groups within
their societies would likely benefit or lose out as ties between their
country and the Union increased. Additional topics covered the
specific reasons behind the respondents' impressions of the aims and
activities of the European Union and their knowledge of the "PHARE"
and "TACIS" programs. Respondents also predicted how they would vote
if a referendum were held the next day on the questions of membership
of the European Union and membership of NATO, and which party or block
they would vote for if a general election were held in their
country. Demographic data collected on participants include
respondent's age, highest level of education completed, occupation,
voting status, mother tongue and knowledge of other languages,
nationality/ethnic background, sex, region, size of locality, and
income.

The files included with this release of the collection
derive from the data producer, GfK EUROPE Ad hoc Research, Brussels.
However, additional processing of the data was performed at the
Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung in Cologne, Germany.

Methodology

Sample:
Multistage national probability samples.

Mode of Data Collection:
face-to-face interview

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1997-01-22

Version History:

2005-07-06 This data collection has been
reformatted and updated in conformance with current Eurobarometer
processing standards. Many variable names, variable labels, and value
labels have been revised to current naming conventions. "EC/EU Info
source" variables have been combined from question 15A and question
15B. Revised SAS and SPSS setup files and an updated documentation
file are now available as well.

1998-02-19 Malgorzata Kuzma has been added to the
list of principal investigators and a revised set of SPSS data
definition statements, with expanded political party labels, is now
available for this study.